What is the measurement of the city?
Answer
"And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs." Verse 16.
NOTE - The measure around it, as the words length and breadth imply, and as was the early
custom of measuring cities, is 12,000 furlongs. This is equal to 1,500 miles, 375 miles on each side,
making a perfect square. The area of this city is therefore 140,625 square miles, or 90,000,000 acres, or
3,920,400,000,000 square feet. Allowing 100 square feet to each person, or a space ten feet square, the city
would hold 39,204,000,000 persons, or twenty times the present population of the globe.
By what name are the sacred writings of the Bible commonly known?
Upon what ground does God's work for sinners rest?
What would make the death of Christ in vain?
What is said of those who read, hear, and keep the things contained in this book?
Where did he say he would wait?
15. Because Solomon asked for wisdom rather than for long life and riches, what besides wisdom did God give him?
From what ills will the saints he for ever delivered?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle